OUTDOOR SCIENCE ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

12 OUTDOOR SCIENCE ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS!

Get ready to add this simple outdoor science activities to your spring and summer lesson plans this season. If you want to head outdoors for hands-0n learning, now’s the time. While you’re at it, make sure to check out these other fun science and STEM activities.

Our science activities and experiments are designed with you, the parent or teacher, in mind! Easy to set up, quick to do, most activities will take only 15 to 30 minutes to complete and are heaps of fun! Plus, our supplies lists usually contain only free or cheap materials you can source from home!

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OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

Click on the green links below to see how everyone set up their science projects outside. Stay tuned each week for more amazing ideas! Whether you want a few new ideas or want to make your own backyard summer science camp, we have you covered! Also, check out our 100 Days of Summer STEM with week by week themes or our Mad Scientist Summer Camp Week!

Have you ever been on a zip line? My son tried an outdoor zip line for the first time this year and loved it. Why not set up a superhero zip line in your backyard to explore the physical sciences like gravity, friction, and energy!

ALL ABOUT ROCKS

Do you love geology or kids who just love any kind of rock? Check out these Rock Testing Experiment ideas. The next time your kids hand you rocks to hold, make sure to do some experimenting with them!

SUN PRINTS

Explore diffusion with sunprint science and watercolor sunprints. Combining art with science is a great STEAM activity too.

BURSTING BAGS

A classic outdoor science experiment, bursting bags, is the perfect activity to take outside. Will it pop, burp, or erupt?

SOIL SCIENCE

Do your kids love to play in the dirt? Set up this awesome soil science experiment to add a little learning to the messy fun!

DIRTY SOCKS?

The perfect excuse to get your socks dirt with an actual Dirty Socks outdoor scienceactivity. Your kids will love it when you tell them about this one! Study the plant life cycle too.

Kids and bugs! have you seen these roly poly bugs or pill bugs? This roly-poly adventures science activity is a great way to observe these little guys. Do they really role into a ball? You will have to find a few and see!

SUNDIALS

Turn your kids intohuman sundials for this cool shadow science experiment activity that shows the time of day by where your shadow is. Learn how people used a sundial for an early time telling device all based on the sun’s position in the sky!

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